Asus EN8800GTS 320Mb bios bonus!?!?!

[Hipcrostino]

look at this pic. I read the bios from my Asus EN8800GTS 320mb version into NiBiTor. Anyway i notice that the performance tables were differant (ie not all the same) so i activated all performance levels to have a look.

The stock stock clocks of this card are the 2D clocks after I've activated the 3 levels. Looks like this bios is already to run this thing oc'd from the factory. I did just check the voltages though. they look wrong. I havn't flashed the bios like this yet either. But i though the 1800mhz ddr looked promising.

what do you guys think. should i activate and flash to this bios? (voltages adjusted of course)

 

[Evilsizer]

oc the card first with rivatuner or ntune or atitool to see if it is stable at those speeds. if it is then do it....

 

[UglyChild]

You should lower the Thrtl and 2D clocks to 500/800 and 400/600.

 

[nd4spdbh2]

if im not mistaken the g80's cant distinguish between a 2d and 3d mode... thus they would render that useless... and BTW my EVGA 8800gts 640mb does the same thing when i change the number of performance levels... it produces the same clocks.

btw what is the site you can download all the bios's for all nvidia cards... i would like to take a look at some other 8800 bioses in nibitor.


all i have to say is be sure you can either blind flash (ie remember the keystrokes) or have another PCIE or PCI gfx card on hand just in case... i personally have a blazing fast PCI Matrox IS-STORM r2 50mhz core baby!

 

[UglyChild]

http://www.mvktech.net/

 

[nd4spdbh2]

THATS the place... thnx

btw in nibitor, under timings, how would i go about knowing which timeing set to use? i mean the auto select timing set thing selects timing set #3 for me. but the problem is when you click that button it doesnt change the timings to timing set #3... i would love to be able to losen the timings a lil to get more of a clock.

 

[Hipcrostino]

wouldn't loosening the timming defeat the purpose of increasing the clock anyway?

On another topic, i went ahead and flashed the card. Fired up no problems. YES the 8800 series recognizes mode changes (its driver based anyway) which i proved in rivaTuner hardware monitor. Still the ram clock didn't change dispite being flashed. I have some to the conclusion that the rivatuner monitor is not reading my ram clock either at all, or incorrectly. all other programs recognize the changes (but i don't trust them either). Anyway i know it worked cause i got strange artifacts in STALKER when it was raining. I saved, rebooted, flashed the card back to stock bios and loaded straight back into STALKER. problem solved. Its a bummer to find out this card doesn't overclock very well on the ram, but it doesn't matter a scerick. I ram 3dmark06 and got 100 more points for my efforts with the bios. I am cpu bottlenecked, plain and simple.

Overall results, it worked, but my card isn't really capable (could easily be these ****ty drivers though!)

NiBiTor shows my timming set at #6. thing is it dosn't mean sqwat to me. is there someplace that describes each timming set in a language that isn't Hex?

 

[nd4spdbh2]

wouldn't loosening the timming defeat the purpose of increasing the clock anyway?

On another topic, i went ahead and flashed the card. Fired up no problems. YES the 8800 series recognizes mode changes (its driver based anyway) which i proved in rivaTuner hardware monitor. Still the ram clock didn't change dispite being flashed. I have some to the conclusion that the rivatuner monitor is not reading my ram clock either at all, or incorrectly. all other programs recognize the changes (but i don't trust them either). Anyway i know it worked cause i got strange artifacts in STALKER when it was raining. I saved, rebooted, flashed the card back to stock bios and loaded straight back into STALKER. problem solved. Its a bummer to find out this card doesn't overclock very well on the ram, but it doesn't matter a scerick. I ram 3dmark06 and got 100 more points for my efforts with the bios. I am cpu bottlenecked, plain and simple.

Overall results, it worked, but my card isn't really capable (could easily be these ****ty drivers though!)

NiBiTor shows my timming set at #6. thing is it dosn't mean sqwat to me. is there someplace that describes each timming set in a language that isn't Hex?

ya you can clikc the detailed timings button and its in normal terms... i just dont kno which one to change... also you say loosening the timings defeats the purpose... well yes if kept at the same clock but say i have a set of 2x1gb ram that does 800mhz @ 4-4-4-12 yet i could do 1200mhz @ 5-5-5-15... which would you chose...

 

[Hipcrostino]

hahah true. But hey, thats what testing is for hey!

 

[UglyChild]

Change it to the next highest number; 2 to 3, or 3 to 4. Example; If its 2-4-3-2, change it to 3-4-3-3. repeat as necessary to gain higher clocks.
That will loosen the timings enough to OC higher.